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Chapter: 001, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side
Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between
Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab.
V 002 (There are eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of mount
Seir unto Kadeshbarnea.)
V 003 And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month,
on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of
Israel, according unto all that the LORD had given him in commandment
unto them;
V 004 After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in
Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:
V 005 On this side Jordan, in the land of Moab, began Moses to declare
this law, saying,
V 006 The LORD our God spake unto us in Horeb, saying, Ye have dwelt
long enough in this mount:
V 007 Turn you, and take your journey, and go to the mount of the
Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the plain, in the
hills, and in the vale, and in the south, and by the sea side, to the
land of the Canaanites, and unto Lebanon, unto the great river, the
river Euphrates.
V 008 Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land
which the LORD sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to
give unto them and to their seed after them.
V 009 And I spake unto you at that time, saying, I am not able to bear
you myself alone:
V 010 The LORD your God hath multiplied you, and, behold, ye are this
day as the stars of heaven for multitude.
V 011 (The LORD God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many
more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)
V 012 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and
your strife?
V 013 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes,
and I will make them rulers over you.
V 014 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken is
good for us to do.
V 015 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and made
them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
officers among your tribes.
V 016 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes
between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his
brother, and the stranger that is with him.
V 017 Ye shall not respect persons in judgment; but ye shall hear the
small as well as the great; ye shall not be afraid of the face of man;
for the judgment is God's: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring
it unto me, and I will hear it.
V 018 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should
do.
V 019 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that great
and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain of the
Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to Kadeshbarnea.
V 020 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
V 021 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up and
possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
not, neither be discouraged.
V 022 And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send
men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word
again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.
V 023 And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one
of a tribe:
V 024 And they turned and went up into the mountain, and came unto the
valley of Eshcol, and searched it out.
V 025 And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought
it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land
which the LORD our God doth give us.
V 026 Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the
commandment of the LORD your God:
V 027 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated
us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
V 028 Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart,
saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great
and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the
Anakims there.
V 029 Then I said unto you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.
V 030 The LORD your God which goeth before you, he shall fight for you,
according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
V 031 And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy
God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went,
until ye came into this place.
V 032 Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
V 033 Who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch
your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go,
and in a cloud by day.
V 034 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and
sware, saying,
V 035 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation
see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.
V 036 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will
I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because
he hath wholly followed the LORD.
V 037 Also the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also
shalt not go in thither.
V 038 But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go
in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
V 039 Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and
your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil,
they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall
possess it.
V 040 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.
V 041 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the
LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God
commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye
were ready to go up into the hill.
V 042 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither
fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
V 043 So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against
the commandment of the LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
V 044 And the Amorites, which dwelt in that mountain, came out against
you, and chased you, as bees do, and destroyed you in Seir, even unto
Hormah.
V 045 And ye returned and wept before the LORD; but the LORD would not
hearken to your voice, nor give ear unto you.
V 046 So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye
abode there.
Chapter: 002, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the
way of the Red sea, as the LORD spake unto me: and we compassed mount
Seir many days.
V 002 And the LORD spake unto me, saying,
V 003 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
V 004 And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the
coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and
they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves
therefore:
V 005 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no,
not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau
for a possession.
V 006 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall
also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
V 007 For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy
hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty
years the LORD thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
V 008 And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau,
which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
V 009 And the LORD said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither
contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for
a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a
possession.
V 010 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many,
and tall, as the Anakims;
V 011 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites
called them Emims.
V 012 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau
succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt
in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the
LORD gave unto them.
V 013 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went
over the brook Zered.
V 014 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we were
come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the
LORD sware unto them.
V 015 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them
from among the host, until they were consumed.
V 016 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead
from among the people,
V 017 That the LORD spake unto me, saying,
V 018 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
V 019 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon,
distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the
land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it
unto the children of Lot for a possession.
V 020 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in
old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
V 021 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the LORD
destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their
stead:
V 022 As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he
destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and
dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
V 023 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the
Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt
in their stead.)
V 024 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon:
behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon,
and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
V 025 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of
thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear
report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
V 026 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon
king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
V 027 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I
will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
V 028 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me
water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
V 029 (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites
which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the
land which the LORD our God giveth us.
V 030 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the
LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he
might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
V 031 And the LORD said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and
his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his
land.
V 032 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at
Jahaz.
V 033 And the LORD our God delivered him before us; and we smote him,
and his sons, and all his people.
V 034 And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the
men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to
remain:
V 035 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil
of the cities which we took.
V 036 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from
the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city
too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered all unto us:
V 037 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor
unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the
mountains, nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbade us.
Chapter: 003, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Then we turned, and went up the way to Bashan: and Og the king of
Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
V 002 And the LORD said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him,
and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto
him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at
Heshbon.
V 003 So the LORD our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of
Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him
remaining.
V 004 And we took all his cities at that time, there was not a city
which we took not from them, threescore cities, all the region of Argob,
the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
V 005 All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars;
beside unwalled towns a great many.
V 006 And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of
Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city.
V 007 But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a
prey to ourselves.
V 008 And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the
Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of Arnon
unto mount Hermon;
V 009 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call it
Shenir;)
V 010 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto
Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
V 011 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the
children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits
the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
V 012 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which
is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof,
gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
V 013 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og,
gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with
all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
V 014 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the
coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name,
Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.
V 015 And I gave Gilead unto Machir.
V 016 And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead
even unto the river Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the
river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;
V 017 The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth
even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdothpisgah
eastward.
V 018 And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath
given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your
brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.
V 019 But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know
that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given
you;
V 020 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto
you, and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath
given them beyond Jordan: and then shall ye return every man unto his
possession, which I have given you.
V 021 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen
all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the
LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.
V 022 Ye shall not fear them: for the LORD your God he shall fight for
you.
V 023 And I besought the LORD at that time, saying,
V 024 O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and
thy mighty hand: for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can
do according to thy works, and according to thy might?
V 025 I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond
Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.
V 026 But the LORD was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear
me: and the LORD said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto
me of this matter.
V 027 Get thee up into the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes
westward, and northward, and southward, and eastward, and behold it with
thine eyes: for thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
V 028 But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he
shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the
land which thou shalt see.
V 029 So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor.
Chapter: 004, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the
judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go
in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
V 002 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall
ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD
your God which I command you.
V 003 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all
the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them
from among you.
V 004 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one
of you this day.
V 005 Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD
my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to
possess it.
V 006 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your
understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these
statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding
people.
V 007 For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them,
as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
V 008 And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and
judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?
V 009 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou
forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from
thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy
sons' sons;
V 010 Specially the day that thou stoodest before the LORD thy God in
Horeb, when the LORD said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I
will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the
days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their
children.
V 011 And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain
burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and
thick darkness.
V 012 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire: ye heard
the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice.
V 013 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to
perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of
stone.
V 014 And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and
judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to
possess it.
V 015 Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner
of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of
the midst of the fire:
V 016 Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the
similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
V 017 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of
any winged fowl that flieth in the air,
V 018 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the
likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
V 019 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest
the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven,
shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the LORD thy
God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.
V 020 But the LORD hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron
furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as
ye are this day.
V 021 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware
that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that
good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
V 022 But I must die in this land, I must not go over Jordan: but ye
shall go over, and possess that good land.
V 023 Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD
your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the
likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
V 024 For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
V 025 When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye
shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and
make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in
the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
V 026 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye
shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan
to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly
be destroyed.
V 027 And the LORD shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be
left few in number among the heathen, whither the LORD shall lead you.
V 028 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and
stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
V 029 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt
find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.
V 030 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon
thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the LORD thy God, and
shalt be obedient unto his voice;
V 031 (For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake
thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which
he sware unto them.
V 032 For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee,
since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one
side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as
this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
V 033 Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of
the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?
V 034 Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of
another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war,
and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors,
according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your
eyes?
V 035 Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he
is God; there is none else beside him.
V 036 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might
instruct thee: and upon earth he showed thee his great fire; and thou
heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
V 037 And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed
after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out
of Egypt;
V 038 To drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than
thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance,
as it is this day.
V 039 Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the
LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is
none else.
V 040 Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments,
which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with
thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the
earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
V 041 Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising;
V 042 That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbor
unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of
these cities he might live:
V 043 Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the
Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan,
of the Manassites.
V 044 And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:
V 045 These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments,
which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out
of Egypt.
V 046 On this side Jordan, in the valley over against Bethpeor, in the
land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and
the children of Israel smote, after they were come forth out of Egypt:
V 047 And they possessed his land, and the land of Og king of Bashan,
two kings of the Amorites, which were on this side Jordan toward the
sunrising;
V 048 From Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon, even unto
mount Sion, which is Hermon,
V 049 And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea
of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.
Chapter: 005, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel,
the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye
may learn them, and keep, and do them.
V 002 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
V 003 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us,
even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
V 004 The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the
midst of the fire,
V 005 (I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to show you the
word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not
up into the mount;) saying,
V 006 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage.
V 007 Thou shalt have none other gods before me.
V 008 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any
thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
is in the waters beneath the earth:
V 009 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I
the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate
me,
V 010 And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my
commandments.
V 011 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the
LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
V 012 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee.
V 013 Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:
V 014 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou
shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy
manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of
thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy
manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
V 015 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and
that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and
by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to
keep the sabbath day.
V 016 Honor thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath
commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well
with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
V 017 Thou shalt not kill.
V 018 Neither shalt thou commit adultery.
V 019 Neither shalt thou steal.
V 020 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.
V 021 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbor's wife, neither shalt thou
covet thy neighbor's house, his field, or his manservant, or his
maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbor's.
V 022 These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out
of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with
a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of
stone, and delivered them unto me.
V 023 And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of
the darkness, (for the mountain did burn with fire,) that ye came near
unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;
V 024 And ye said, Behold, the LORD our God hath showed us his glory and
his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire:
we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.
V 025 Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume
us: if we hear the voice of the LORD our God any more, then we shall
die.
V 026 For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the
living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?
V 027 Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and
speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and
we will hear it, and do it.
V 028 And the LORD heard the voice of your words, when ye spake unto me;
and the LORD said unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this
people, which they have spoken unto thee: they have well said all that
they have spoken.
V 029 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me,
and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them,
and with their children for ever!
V 030 Go say to them, Get you into your tents again.
V 031 But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee
all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou
shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to
possess it.
V 032 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath
commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
V 033 Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath
commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and
that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.
Chapter: 006, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments,
which the LORD your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in
the land whither ye go to possess it:
V 002 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes
and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy
son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.
V 003 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be
well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of
thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and
honey.
V 004 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
V 005 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
V 006 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine
heart:
V 007 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt
talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by
the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
V 008 And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they
shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
V 009 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy
gates.
V 010 And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee
into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and
to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst
not,
V 011 And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and
wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which
thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
V 012 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD, which brought thee forth
out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
V 013 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear
by his name.
V 014 Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which
are round about you;
V 015 (For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger
of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off
the face of the earth.
V 016 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.
V 017 Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God,
and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
V 018 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the
LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and
possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers.
V 019 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the LORD hath
spoken.
V 020 And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean
the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the LORD our
God hath commanded you?
V 021 Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in
Egypt; and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand:
V 022 And the LORD showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt,
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes:
V 023 And he brought us out from thence, that he might bring us in, to
give us the land which he sware unto our fathers.
V 024 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the
LORD our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as
it is at this day.
V 025 And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these
commandments before the LORD our God, as he hath commanded us.
Chapter: 007, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 When the LORD thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and
the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations
greater and mightier than thou;
V 002 And when the LORD thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou
shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant
with them, nor show mercy unto them:
V 003 Neither shalt thou make marriages with them; thy daughter thou
shalt not give unto his son, nor his daughter shalt thou take unto thy
son.
V 004 For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may
serve other gods: so will the anger of the LORD be kindled against you,
and destroy thee suddenly.
V 005 But thus shall ye deal with them; ye shall destroy their altars,
and break down their images, and cut down their groves, and burn their
graven images with fire.
V 006 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy
God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all
people that are upon the face of the earth.
V 007 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye
were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all
people:
V 008 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath
which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with
a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the
hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
V 009 Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God,
which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his
commandments to a thousand generations;
V 010 And repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he
will not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.
V 011 Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and
the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.
V 012 Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments,
and keep, and do them, that the LORD thy God shall keep unto thee the
covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
V 013 And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will
also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn,
and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of
thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
V 014 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.
V 015 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put
none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but
will lay them upon all them that hate thee.
V 016 And thou shalt consume all the people which the LORD thy God shall
deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou
serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.
V 017 If thou shalt say in thine heart, These nations are more than I;
how can I dispossess them?
V 018 Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the
LORD thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;
V 019 The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the
wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the
LORD thy God brought thee out: so shall the LORD thy God do unto all the
people of whom thou art afraid.
V 020 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until
they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
V 021 Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is
among you, a mighty God and terrible.
V 022 And the LORD thy God will put out those nations before thee by
little and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts
of the field increase upon thee.
V 023 But the LORD thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall
destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.
V 024 And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt
destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to
stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.
V 025 The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou
shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto
thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the LORD
thy God.
V 026 Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest
thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and
thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
Chapter: 008, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye
observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the
land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
V 002 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove
thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no.
V 003 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee
with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that
he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
V 004 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell,
these forty years.
V 005 Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth
his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
V 006 Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to fear him.
V 007 For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of
brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and
hills;
V 008 A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and
pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;
V 009 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt
not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose
hills thou mayest dig brass.
V 010 When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD
thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
V 011 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his
commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee
this day:
V 012 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly
houses, and dwelt therein;
V 013 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy
gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
V 014 Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the LORD thy God,
which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage;
V 015 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein
were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no
water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
V 016 Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew
not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee
good at thy latter end;
V 017 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand
hath gotten me this wealth.
V 018 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth
thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he
sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
V 019 And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and
walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify
against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
V 020 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face, so
shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the
LORD your God.
Chapter: 009, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Hear, O Israel: Thou art to pass over Jordan this day, to go in to
possess nations greater and mightier than thyself, cities great and
fenced up to heaven,
V 002 A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou
knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the
children of Anak!
V 003 Understand therefore this day, that the LORD thy God is he which
goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and
he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out,
and destroy them quickly, as the LORD hath said unto thee.
V 004 Speak not thou in thine heart, after that the LORD thy God hath
cast them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness the LORD
hath brought me in to possess this land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee.
V 005 Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart,
dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these
nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that
he may perform the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob.
V 006 Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this
good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a
stiffnecked people.
V 007 Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to
wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the
land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious
against the LORD.
V 008 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath, so that the LORD was
angry with you to have destroyed you.
V 009 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone,
even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you, then I
abode in the mount forty days and forty nights, I neither did eat bread
nor drink water:
V 010 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with
the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words,
which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire
in the day of the assembly.
V 011 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights,
that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the
covenant.
V 012 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, get thee down quickly from
hence; for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have
corrupted themselves; they are quickly turned aside out of the way which
I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
V 013 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this
people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
V 014 Let me alone, that I may destroy them, and blot out their name
from under heaven: and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater
than they.
V 015 So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned
with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
V 016 And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your
God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of
the way which the LORD had commanded you.
V 017 And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and
brake them before your eyes.
V 018 And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and
forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all
your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD,
to provoke him to anger.
V 019 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure, wherewith the
LORD was wroth against you to destroy you. But the LORD hearkened unto
me at that time also.
V 020 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and
I prayed for Aaron also the same time.
V 021 And I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with
fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small, even until it was as
small as dust: and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended
out of the mount.
V 022 And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibrothhattaavah, ye
provoked the LORD to wrath.
V 023 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up
and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against
the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor
hearkened to his voice.
V 024 Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew
you.
V 025 Thus I fell down before the LORD forty days and forty nights, as I
fell down at the first; because the LORD had said he would destroy you.
V 026 I prayed therefore unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, destroy
not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through
thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty
hand.
V 027 Remember thy servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; look not unto
the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their
sin:
V 028 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD
was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and
because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the
wilderness.
V 029 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.
Chapter: 010, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 At that time the LORD said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone
like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee
an ark of wood.
V 002 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first
tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.
V 003 And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone
like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables
in mine hand.
V 004 And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the
ten commandments, which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the
midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the LORD gave them
unto me.
V 005 And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the
tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD
commanded me.
V 006 And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the
children of Jaakan to Mosera: there Aaron died, and there he was buried;
and Eleazar his son ministered in the priest's office in his stead.
V 007 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah; and from Gudgodah to
Jotbath, a land of rivers of waters.
V 008 At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark
of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto
him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
V 009 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren; the
LORD is his inheritance, according as the LORD thy God promised him.
V 010 And I stayed in the mount, according to the first time, forty days
and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me at that time also, and
the LORD would not destroy thee.
V 011 And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the
people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto
their fathers to give unto them.
V 012 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but
to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and
to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,
V 013 To keep the commandments of the LORD, and his statutes, which I
command thee this day for thy good?
V 014 Behold, the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORD's thy
God, the earth also, with all that therein is.
V 015 Only the LORD had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he
chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this
day.
V 016 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more
stiffnecked.
V 017 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great
God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh
reward:
V 018 He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and
loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.
V 019 Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land
of Egypt.
V 020 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him
shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.
V 021 He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these
great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.
V 022 Thy fathers went down into Egypt with threescore and ten persons;
and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for
multitude.
Chapter: 011, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
V 002 And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which
have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD
your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
V 003 And his miracles, and his acts, which he did in the midst of Egypt
unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all his land;
V 004 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to
their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as
they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this
day;
V 005 And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into
this place;
V 006 And what he did unto Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son
of Reuben: how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and
their households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in
their possession, in the midst of all Israel:
V 007 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he
did.
V 008 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you
this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither
ye go to possess it;
V 009 And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD
sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
V 010 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the
land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and
wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:
V 011 But the land, whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and
valleys, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven:
V 012 A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes of the LORD thy
God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end
of the year.
V 013 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my
commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God,
and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
V 014 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the
first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and
thy wine, and thine oil.
V 015 And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou
mayest eat and be full.
V 016 Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye
turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;
V 017 And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up
the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her
fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD
giveth you.
V 018 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your
soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as
frontlets between your eyes.
V 019 And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou
liest down, and when thou risest up.
V 020 And thou shalt write them upon the door posts of thine house, and
upon thy gates:
V 021 That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children,
in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the
days of heaven upon the earth.
V 022 For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I
command you, to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his
ways, and to cleave unto him;
V 023 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you,
and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier than yourselves.
V 024 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be
yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river
Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be.
V 025 There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the LORD your
God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land
that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.
V 026 Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;
V 027 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God,
which I command you this day:
V 028 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your
God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go
after other gods, which ye have not known.
V 029 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee
in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put
the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.
V 030 Are they not on the other side Jordan, by the way where the sun
goeth down, in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the champaign
over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
V 031 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which
the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell
therein.
V 032 And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I
set before you this day.
Chapter: 012, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do
in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess
it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
V 002 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places, wherein the nations which
ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon
the hills, and under every green tree:
V 003 And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars, and
burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of
their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place.
V 004 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God.
V 005 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all
your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye
seek, and thither thou shalt come:
V 006 And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your
sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your
vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and
of your flocks:
V 007 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall
rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households,
wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.
V 008 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day,
every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes.
V 009 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance,
which the LORD your God giveth you.
V 010 But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD
your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all
your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
V 011 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose
to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I
command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and
the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow
unto the LORD:
V 012 And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons,
and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the
Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor
inheritance with you.
V 013 Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in
every place that thou seest:
V 014 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy tribes,
there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all
that I command thee.
V 015 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates,
whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD
thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat
thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
V 016 Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth
as water.
V 017 Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of
thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock,
nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or
heave offering of thine hand:
V 018 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which
the LORD thy God shall choose, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and
thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite that is within thy
gates: and thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God in all that thou
puttest thine hands unto.
V 019 Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as
thou livest upon the earth.
V 020 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath
promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul
longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after.
V 021 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name
there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy
flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and
thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
V 022 Even as the roebuck and the hart is eaten, so thou shalt eat them:
the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike.
V 023 Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the
life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.
V 024 Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.
V 025 Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy
children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight
of the LORD.
V 026 Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt
take, and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose:
V 027 And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood,
upon the altar of the LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices
shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God, and thou shalt
eat the flesh.
V 028 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may
go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou
doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God.
V 029 When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee,
whither thou goest to possess them, and thou succeedest them, and
dwellest in their land;
V 030 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them,
after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not
after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even
so will I do likewise.
V 031 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination
to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even
their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their
gods.
V 032 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not
add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Chapter: 013, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and
giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
V 002 And the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spake unto
thee, saying, Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and
let us serve them;
V 003 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that
dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye
love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
V 004 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his
commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave
unto him.
V 005 And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to
death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God,
which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the
house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God
commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the
midst of thee.
V 006 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy
daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own
soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods,
which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
V 007 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh
unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto
the other end of the earth;
V 008 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither
shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou
conceal him:
V 009 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him
to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
V 010 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath
sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out
of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.
V 011 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such
wickedness as this is among you.
V 012 If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the LORD thy
God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
V 013 Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you,
and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and
serve other gods, which ye have not known;
V 014 Then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and,
behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is
wrought among you;
V 015 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge
of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the
cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
V 016 And thou shalt gather all the spoil of it into the midst of the
street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil
thereof every whit, for the LORD thy God: and it shall be an heap for
ever; it shall not be built again.
V 017 And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand:
that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show thee
mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers;
V 018 When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is
right in the eyes of the LORD thy God.
Chapter: 014, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut
yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
V 002 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD
hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the
nations that are upon the earth.
V 003 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
V 004 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep, and
the goat,
V 005 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild goat,
and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
V 006 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into
two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
V 007 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or
of them that divide the cloven hoof; as the camel, and the hare, and the
coney: for they chew the cud, but divide not the hoof; therefore they
are unclean unto you.
V 008 And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the
cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch
their dead carcass.
V 009 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have
fins and scales shall ye eat:
V 010 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is
unclean unto you.
V 011 Of all clean birds ye shall eat.
V 012 But these are they of which ye shall not eat: the eagle, and the
ossifrage, and the ospray,
V 013 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,
V 014 And every raven after his kind,
V 015 And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckoo, and the hawk
after his kind,
V 016 The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
V 017 And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,
V 018 And the stork, and the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and
the bat.
V 019 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you: they
shall not be eaten.
V 020 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
V 021 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt give
it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou
mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the LORD
thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
V 022 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the
field bringeth forth year by year.
V 023 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place which he
shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy
wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy
flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the LORD thy God always.
V 024 And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to
carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the LORD thy God
shall choose to set his name there, when the LORD thy God hath blessed
thee:
V 025 Then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thine
hand, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD thy God shall choose:
V 026 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth
after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for
whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD
thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
V 027 And the Levite that is within thy gates; thou shalt not forsake
him; for he hath no part nor inheritance with thee.
V 028 At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of
thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:
V 029 And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with
thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are
within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the
LORD thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou
doest.
Chapter: 015, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
V 002 And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth
ought unto his neighbor shall release it; he shall not exact it of his
neighbor, or of his brother; because it is called the LORD's release.
V 003 Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it again: but that which is thine
with thy brother thine hand shall release;
V 004 Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall
greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an
inheritance to possess it:
V 005 Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,
to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
V 006 For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou
shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt
reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.
V 007 If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any
of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt
not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
V 008 But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely
lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.
V 009 Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying,
The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil
against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto
the LORD against thee, and it be sin unto thee.
V 010 Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved
when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine
hand unto.
V 011 For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I
command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother,
to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.
V 012 And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold
unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt
let him go free from thee.
V 013 And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let
him go away empty:
V 014 Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy
floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath
blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.
V 015 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this
thing to day.
V 016 And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from
thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with
thee;
V 017 Then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto
the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy
maidservant thou shalt do likewise.
V 018 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free
from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in
serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all
that thou doest.
V 019 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock
thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with
the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
V 020 Thou shalt eat it before the LORD thy God year by year in the
place which the LORD shall choose, thou and thy household.
V 021 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind,
or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy
God.
V 022 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the unclean and the clean
person shall eat it alike, as the roebuck, and as the hart.
V 023 Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon
the ground as water.
Chapter: 016, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the LORD thy
God: for in the month of Abib the LORD thy God brought thee forth out of
Egypt by night.
V 002 Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover unto the LORD thy God,
of the flock and the herd, in the place which the LORD shall choose to
place his name there.
V 003 Thou shalt eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shalt thou
eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for thou
camest forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that thou mayest
remember the day when thou camest forth out of the land of Egypt all the
days of thy life.
V 004 And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy
coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou
sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.
V 005 Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
V 006 But at the place which the LORD thy God shall choose to place his
name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going
down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.
V 007 And thou shalt roast and eat it in the place which the LORD thy
God shall choose: and thou shalt turn in the morning, and go unto thy
tents.
V 008 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day
shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work
therein.
V 009 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: begin to number the seven
weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn.
V 010 And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God with
a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give
unto the LORD thy God, according as the LORD thy God hath blessed thee:
V 011 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son,
and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the
Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless,
and the widow, that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God
hath chosen to place his name there.
V 012 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and
thou shalt observe and do these statutes.
V 013 Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after that
thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine:
V 014 And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy
daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite, the
stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.
V 015 Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the LORD thy God in
the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD thy God shall
bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands,
therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
V 016 Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD
thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and
they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
V 017 Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of
the LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
V 018 Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which
the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall
judge the people with just judgment.
V 019 Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons,
neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and
pervert the words of the righteous.
V 020 That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest
live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
V 021 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar
of the LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
V 022 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God
hateth.
Chapter: 017, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God any bullock, or
sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
V 002 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in
the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
V 003 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either
the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not
commanded;
V 004 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and inquired
diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such
abomination is wrought in Israel:
V 005 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have
committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that
woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
V 006 At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, shall he that
is worthy of death be put to death; but at the mouth of one witness he
shall not be put to death.
V 007 The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to
death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the
evil away from among you.
V 008 If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between
blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke,
being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise,
and get thee up into the place which the LORD thy God shall choose;
V 009 And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the
judge that shall be in those days, and inquire; and they shall show thee
the sentence of judgment:
V 010 And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that
place which the LORD shall choose shall show thee; and thou shalt
observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
V 011 According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee,
and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do:
thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to
the right hand, nor to the left.
V 012 And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto
the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or
unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the
evil from Israel.
V 013 And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more
presumptuously.
V 014 When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I
will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
V 015 Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the LORD thy
God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over
thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy
brother.
V 016 But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people
to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch
as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that
way.
V 017 Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn
not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
V 018 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom,
that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which
is before the priests the Levites:
V 019 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all the days
of his life: that he may learn to fear the LORD his God, to keep all the
words of this law and these statutes, to do them:
V 020 That his heart be not lifted up above his brethren, and that he
turn not aside from the commandment, to the right hand, or to the left:
to the end that he may prolong his days in his kingdom, he, and his
children, in the midst of Israel.
Chapter: 018, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no
part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings of the
LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
V 002 Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the
LORD is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.
V 003 And this shall be the priest's due from the people, from them that
offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto
the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.
V 004 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil,
and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt thou give him.
V 005 For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to
stand to minister in the name of the LORD, him and his sons for ever.
V 006 And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel,
where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the
place which the LORD shall choose;
V 007 Then he shall minister in the name of the LORD his God, as all his
brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
V 008 They shall have like portions to eat, beside that which cometh of
the sale of his patrimony.
V 009 When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those
nations.
V 010 There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or
his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an
observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch.
V 011 Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard,
or a necromancer.
V 012 For all that do these things are an abomination unto the LORD: and
because of these abominations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from
before thee.
V 013 Thou shalt be perfect with the LORD thy God.
V 014 For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto
observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the LORD thy God
hath not suffered thee so to do.
V 015 The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst
of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;
V 016 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb
in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of
the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die
not.
V 017 And the LORD said unto me, They have well spoken that which they
have spoken.
V 018 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like
unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto
them all that I shall command him.
V 019 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my
words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.
V 020 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name,
which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name
of other gods, even that prophet shall die.
V 021 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which
the LORD hath not spoken?
V 022 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing
follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not
spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be
afraid of him.
Chapter: 019, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the
LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in
their cities, and in their houses;
V 002 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy
land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
V 003 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land,
which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that
every slayer may flee thither.
V 004 And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that
he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbor ignorantly, whom he hated not in
time past;
V 005 As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbor to hew wood,
and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and
the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, that
he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:
V 006 Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart
is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas
he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.
V 007 Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities
for thee.
V 008 And if the LORD thy God enlarge thy coast, as he hath sworn unto
thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give unto
thy fathers;
V 009 If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I
command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his
ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these
three:
V 010 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
V 011 But if any man hate his neighbor, and lie in wait for him, and
rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into
one of these cities:
V 012 Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and
deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
V 013 Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of
innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
V 014 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old
time have set in thine inheritance,
which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee
to
possess it.
V 015 One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or
for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses,
or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
V 016 If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him
that which is wrong;
V 017 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand
before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in
those days;
V 018 And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if
the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his
brother;
V 019 Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his
brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
V 020 And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth
commit no more any such evil among you.
V 021 And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for
eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Chapter: 020, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest
horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of
them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of
the land of Egypt.
V 002 And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the
priest shall approach and speak unto the people,
V 003 And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto
battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do
not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them;
V 004 For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you
against your enemies, to save you.
V 005 And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is
there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go
and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man
dedicate it.
V 006 And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard, and hath not yet
eaten of it? let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle, and another man eat of it.
V 007 And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not
taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the
battle, and another man take her.
V 008 And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they
shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him
go and return unto his house, lest his brethren's heart faint as well as
his heart.
V 009 And it shall be, when the officers have made an end of speaking
unto the people that they shall make captains of the armies to lead the
people.
V 010 When thou comest nigh unto a city to fight against it, then
proclaim peace unto it.
V 011 And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto
thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall
be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
V 012 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against
thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
V 013 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou
shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
V 014 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that
is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto
thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee.
V 015 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off from
thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.
V 016 But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth
give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that
breatheth:
V 017 But thou shalt utterly destroy them; namely, the Hittites, and the
Amorites, the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites; as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee:
V 018 That they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which
they have done unto their gods; so should ye sin against the LORD your
God.
V 019 When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against
it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by forcing an
axe against them: for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut
them down (for the tree of the field is man's life) to employ them in
the siege:
V 020 Only the trees which thou knowest that they be not trees for meat,
thou shalt destroy and cut them down; and thou shalt build bulwarks
against the city that maketh war with thee, until it be subdued.
Chapter: 021, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth
thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath
slain him:
V 002 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall
measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
V 003 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man,
even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been
wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
V 004 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a
rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the
heifer's neck there in the valley:
V 005 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name
of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke
be tried:
V 006 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man,
shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
V 007 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood,
neither have our eyes seen it.
V 008 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast
redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge.
And the blood shall be forgiven them.
V 009 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you,
when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
V 010 When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD
thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive,
V 011 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire
unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
V 012 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house, and she shall shave
her head, and pare her nails;
V 013 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and
shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full
month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and
she shall be thy wife.
V 014 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt
let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for
money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled
her.
V 015 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they
have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son be hers that was hated:
V 016 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he
hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the
son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
V 017 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn,
by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the
beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
V 018 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey
the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they
have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
V 019 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring
him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
V 020 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is
stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton,
and a drunkard.
V 021 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he
die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall
hear, and fear.
V 022 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be
put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
V 023 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt
in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of
God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee
for an inheritance.
Chapter: 022, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and
hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy
brother.
V 002 And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not,
then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee
until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.
V 003 In like manner shalt thou do with his ass; and so shalt thou do
with his raiment; and with all lost thing of thy brother's, which he
hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not
hide thyself.
V 004 Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the
way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them
up again.
V 005 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither
shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination
unto the LORD thy God.
V 006 If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree,
or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam
sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam
with the young:
V 007 But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to
thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy
days.
V 008 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement
for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man
fall from thence.
V 009 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit
of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be
defiled.
V 010 Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.
V 011 Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woolen and
linen together.
V 012 Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy
vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
V 013 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,
V 014 And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil
name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I
found her not a maid:
V 015 Then shall the father of the damsel, and her mother, take and
bring forth the tokens of the damsel's virginity unto the elders of the
city in the gate:
V 016 And the damsel's father shall say unto the elders, I gave my
daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
V 017 And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I
found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my
daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders
of the city.
V 018 And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
V 019 And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and
give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an
evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not
put her away all his days.
V 020 But if this thing be true, and the tokens of virginity be not
found for the damsel:
V 021 Then they shall bring out the damsel to the door of her father's
house, and the men of her city shall stone her with stones that she die:
because she hath wrought folly in Israel, to play the whore in her
father's house: so shalt thou put evil away from among you.
V 022 If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then
they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and
the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.
V 023 If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto an husband, and a
man find her in the city, and lie with her;
V 024 Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and
ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she
cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his
neighbor's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.
V 025 But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man
force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall
die.
V 026 But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel
no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbor,
and slayeth him, even so is this matter:
V 027 For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and
there was none to save her.
V 028 If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,
and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;
V 029 Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel's father
fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath
humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.
V 030 A man shall not take his father's wife, nor discover his father's
skirt.
Chapter: 023, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut
off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
V 002 A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD; even
to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the
LORD.
V 003 An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of
the LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the
congregation of the LORD for ever:
V 004 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way,
when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee
Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
V 005 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but
the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the
LORD thy God loved thee.
V 006 Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days
for ever.
V 007 Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt
not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.
V 008 The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the
congregation of the LORD in their third generation.
V 009 When the host goeth forth against thine enemies, then keep thee
from every wicked thing.
V 010 If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of
uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of
the camp, he shall not come within the camp:
V 011 But it shall be, when evening cometh on, he shall wash himself
with water: and when the sun is down, he shall come into the camp again.
V 012 Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt
go forth abroad:
V 013 And thou shalt have a paddle upon thy weapon; and it shall be,
when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt dig therewith, and shalt
turn back and cover that which cometh from thee:
V 014 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver
thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp
be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.
V 015 Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is
escaped from his master unto thee:
V 016 He shall dwell with thee, even among you, in that place which he
shall choose in one of thy gates, where it liketh him best: thou shalt
not oppress him.
V 017 There shall be no whore of the daughters of Israel, nor a sodomite
of the sons of Israel.
V 018 Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog,
into the house of the LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
V 019 Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money,
usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:
V 020 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother
thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in
all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to
possess it.
V 021 When thou shalt vow a vow unto the LORD thy God, thou shalt not
slack to pay it: for the LORD thy God will surely require it of thee;
and it would be sin in thee.
V 022 But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.
V 023 That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform;
even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy
God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
V 024 When thou comest into thy neighbor's vineyard, then thou mayest
eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in
thy vessel.
V 025 When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbor, then thou
mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle
unto thy neighbor's standing corn.
Chapter: 024, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass
that she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and
give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
V 002 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.
V 003 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
V 004 Her former husband, which sent her away, may not take her again to
be his wife, after that she is defiled; for that is abomination before
the LORD: and thou shalt not cause the land to sin, which the LORD thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance.
V 005 When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war,
neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at
home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.
V 006 No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for
he taketh a man's life to pledge.
V 007 If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of
Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief
shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.
V 008 Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently,
and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as
I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.
V 009 Remember what the LORD thy God did unto Miriam by the way, after
that ye were come forth out of Egypt.
V 010 When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into
his house to fetch his pledge.
V 011 Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall
bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.
V 012 And if the man be poor, thou shalt not sleep with his pledge:
V 013 In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun
goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it
shall be righteousness unto thee before the LORD thy God.
V 014 Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy,
whether he be of thy brethren, or of thy strangers that are in thy land
within thy gates:
V 015 At his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go
down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry
against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
V 016 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither
shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be
put to death for his own sin.
V 017 Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the
fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge:
V 018 But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the
LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this
thing.
V 019 When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot
a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be
for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the LORD
thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.
V 020 When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the
boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for
the widow.
V 021 When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not
glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless,
and for the widow.
V 022 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of
Egypt: therefore I command thee to do this thing.
Chapter: 025, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto
judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the
righteous, and condemn the wicked.
V 002 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that
the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face,
according to his fault, by a certain number.
V 003 Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should
exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother
should seem vile unto thee.
V 004 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
V 005 If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no
child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her
husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and
perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
V 006 And it shall be, that the firstborn which she beareth shall
succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, that his name be not
put out of Israel.
V 007 And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his
brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's
brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will
not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
V 008 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him:
and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
V 009 Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the
elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and
shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not
build up his brother's house.
V 010 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath
his shoe loosed.
V 011 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one
draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that
smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:
V 012 Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.
V 013 Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a
small.
V 014 Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a
small.
V 015 But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just
measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land
which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
V 016 For all that do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an
abomination unto the LORD thy God.
V 017 Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come
forth out of Egypt;
V 018 How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even
all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he
feared not God.
V 019 Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest
from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out
the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
Chapter: 026, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and
dwellest therein;
V 002 That thou shalt take of the first of all the fruit of the earth,
which thou shalt bring of thy land that the LORD thy God giveth thee,
and shalt put it in a basket, and shalt go unto the place which the LORD
thy God shall choose to place his name there.
V 003 And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and
say unto him, I profess this day unto the LORD thy God, that I am come
unto the country which the LORD sware unto our fathers for to give us.
V 004 And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it
down before the altar of the LORD thy God.
V 005 And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God, A Syrian
ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and
sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty,
and populous:
V 006 And the Egyptians evil entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid
upon us hard bondage:
V 007 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard
our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labor, and our
oppression:
V 008 And the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and
with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs,
and with wonders:
V 009 And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this
land, even a land that floweth with milk and honey.
V 010 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which
thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD thy
God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
V 011 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy God
hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and
the stranger that is among you.
V 012 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it
unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they
may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
V 013 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought away
the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the
Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow,
according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have
not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
V 014 I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away
ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead:
but I have hearkened to the voice of the LORD my God, and have done
according to all that thou hast commanded me.
V 015 Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy
people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest
unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
V 016 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes
and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine
heart, and with all thy soul.
V 017 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in
his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his
judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
V 018 And the LORD hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar
people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his
commandments;
V 019 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in
praise, and in name, and in honor; and that thou mayest be an holy
people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
Chapter: 027, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying,
Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
V 002 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto the
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up
great stones, and plaster them with plaster:
V 003 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when
thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the
LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as
the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.
V 004 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall
set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and
thou shalt plaster them with plaster.
V 005 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an
altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.
V 006 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole stones:
and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
V 007 And thou shalt offer peace offerings, and shalt eat there, and
rejoice before the LORD thy God.
V 008 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
very plainly.
V 009 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the
people of the LORD thy God.
V 010 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and do
his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
V 011 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
V 012 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye
are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and
Joseph, and Benjamin:
V 013 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and
Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.
V 014 And the Levites shall speak, and say unto all the men of Israel
with a loud voice,
V 015 Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an
abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and
putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say,
Amen.
V 016 Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And
all the people shall say, Amen.
V 017 Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor's landmark. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
V 018 Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And
all the people shall say, Amen.
V 019 Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger,
fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
V 020 Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife; because he
uncovereth his father's skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
V 021 Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
V 022 Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his
father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say,
Amen.
V 023 Cursed be he that lieth with his mother in law. And all the people
shall say, Amen.
V 024 Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly. And all the
people shall say, Amen.
V 025 Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And
all the people shall say, Amen.
V 026 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do
them. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Chapter: 028, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto
the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments
which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on
high above all nations of the earth:
V 002 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if
thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God.
V 003 Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in
the field.
V 004 Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy
ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the
flocks of thy sheep.
V 005 Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.
V 006 Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou
be when thou goest out.
V 007 The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be
smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and
flee before thee seven ways.
V 008 The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses,
and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
V 009 The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he
hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the LORD
thy God, and walk in his ways.
V 010 And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the
name of the LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
V 011 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of
thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy
ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
V 012 The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to
give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of
thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not
borrow.
V 013 And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou
shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken
unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this
day, to observe and to do them:
V 014 And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command
thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods
to serve them.
V 015 But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice
of the LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his
statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come
upon thee, and overtake thee:
V 016 Cursed shalt thou be in the city, and cursed shalt thou be in the
field.
V 017 Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
V 018 Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land,
the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
V 019 Cursed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and cursed shalt thou be
when thou goest out.
V 020 The LORD shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in
all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be
destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of
thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.
V 021 The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have
consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.
V 022 The LORD shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever,
and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the
sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee
until thou perish.
V 023 And thy heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth
that is under thee shall be iron.
V 024 The LORD shall make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from
heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.
V 025 The LORD shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou
shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and
shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.
V 026 And thy carcass shall be meat unto all fowls of the air, and unto
the beasts of the earth, and no man shall fray them away.
V 027 The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the
emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be
healed.
V 028 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and
astonishment of heart:
V 029 And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness,
and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed
and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
V 030 Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her:
thou shalt build an house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt
plant a vineyard, and shalt not gather the grapes thereof.
V 031 Thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, and thou shalt not eat
thereof: thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face,
and shall not be restored to thee: thy sheep shall be given unto thine
enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them.
V 032 Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and
thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long;
and there shall be no might in thine hand.
V 033 The fruit of thy land, and all thy labors, shall a nation which
thou knowest not eat up; and thou shalt be only oppressed and crushed
alway:
V 034 So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.
V 035 The LORD shall smite thee in the knees, and in the legs, with a
sore botch that cannot be healed, from the sole of thy foot unto the top
of thy head.
V 036 The LORD shall bring thee, and thy king which thou shalt set over
thee, unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known; and
there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.
V 037 And thou shalt become an astonishment, a proverb, and a byword,
among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee.
V 038 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather
but little in; for the locust shall consume it.
V 039 Thou shalt plant vineyards, and dress them, but shalt neither
drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them.
V 040 Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou
shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his
fruit.
V 041 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy
them; for they shall go into captivity.
V 042 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust consume.
V 043 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very
high; and thou shalt come down very low.
V 044 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be
the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
V 045 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue
thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou
hearkenedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his
commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
V 046 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon
thy seed for ever.
V 047 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and
with gladness of heart, for the abundance of all things;
V 048 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send
against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of
all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have
destroyed thee.
V 049 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end
of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou
shalt not understand;
V 050 A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person
of the old, nor show favor to the young:
V 051 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy
land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either
corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep,
until he have destroyed thee.
V 052 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and
fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land:
and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land,
which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
V 053 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of thy
sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee, in
the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress
thee:
V 054 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his
eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom,
and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
V 055 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his
children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the
siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress
thee in all thy gates.
V 056 The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure
to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and
tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and
toward her son, and toward her daughter,
V 057 And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet,
and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for
want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine
enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.
V 058 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are
written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful
name, THE LORD THY GOD;
V 059 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of
thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore
sicknesses, and of long continuance.
V 060 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which
thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.
V 061 Also every sickness, and every plague, which is not written in the
book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be
destroyed.
V 062 And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars
of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the
LORD thy God.
V 063 And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to
do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to
destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from
off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
V 064 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end
of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods,
which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
V 065 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the
sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a
trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
V 066 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear
day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
V 067 In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even
thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart
wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou
shalt see.
V 068 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the
way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and
there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and
no man shall buy you.
Chapter: 029, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded
Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside
the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
V 002 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen
all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto
Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;
V 003 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and
those great miracles:
V 004 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to
see, and ears to hear, unto this day.
V 005 And I have led you forty years in the wilderness: your clothes are
not waxen old upon you, and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot.
V 006 Ye have not eaten bread, neither have ye drunk wine or strong
drink: that ye might know that I am the LORD your God.
V 007 And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and
Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote
them:
V 008 And we took their land, and gave it for an inheritance unto the
Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half tribe of Manasseh.
V 009 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye
may prosper in all that ye do.
V 010 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your
captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the
men of Israel,
V 011 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy
camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water:
V 012 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and
into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day:
V 013 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and
that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he
hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
V 014 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath;
V 015 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD
our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
V 016 (For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt; and how we
came through the nations which ye passed by;
V 017 And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and
stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
V 018 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe,
whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve
the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that
beareth gall and wormwood;
V 019 And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that
he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk
in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:
V 020 The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger of the LORD and
his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are
written in this book shall lie upon him, and the LORD shall blot out his
name from under heaven.
V 021 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of
Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in
this book of the law:
V 022 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up
after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say,
when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the
LORD hath laid upon it;
V 023 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and
burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth
therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim,
which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
V 024 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto
this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
V 025 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the
LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them
forth out of the land of Egypt:
V 026 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods
whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
V 027 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to bring
upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
V 028 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath,
and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this
day.
V 029 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things
which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we
may do all the words of this law.
Chapter: 030, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon
thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou
shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the LORD thy God
hath driven thee,
V 002 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice
according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children,
with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
V 003 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity, and have
compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the
nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
V 004 If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee, and from thence will he
fetch thee:
V 005 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy
fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good,
and multiply thee above thy fathers.
V 006 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of
thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all
thy soul, that thou mayest live.
V 007 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies,
and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
V 008 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all
his commandments which I command thee this day.
V 009 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of
thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle,
and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice
over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
V 010 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep
his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the
law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and
with all thy soul.
V 011 For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not
hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
V 012 It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for
us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
V 013 Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall
go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and
do it?
V 014 But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy
heart, that thou mayest do it.
V 015 See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and
evil;
V 016 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk
in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
V 017 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but
shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
V 018 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and
that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest
over Jordan to go to possess it.
V 019 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I
have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
V 020 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey
his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and
the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the
LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give
them.
Chapter: 031, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel.
V 002 And he said unto them, I am an hundred and twenty years old this
day; I can no more go out and come in: also the LORD hath said unto me,
Thou shalt not go over this Jordan.
V 003 The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy
these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua,
he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said.
V 004 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og,
kings of the Amorites, and unto the land of them, whom he destroyed.
V 005 And the LORD shall give them up before your face, that ye may do
unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded
you.
V 006 Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them:
for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail
thee, nor forsake thee.
V 007 And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of
all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this
people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to
give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
V 008 And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with
thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be
dismayed.
V 009 And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the
sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto
all the elders of Israel.
V 010 And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years,
in the solemnity of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,
V 011 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the
place which he shall choose, thou shalt read this law before all Israel
in their hearing.
V 012 Gather the people together, men and women, and children, and thy
stranger that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may
learn, and fear the LORD your God, and observe to do all the words of
this law:
V 013 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear,
and learn to fear the LORD your God, as long as ye live in the land
whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.
V 014 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thy days approach that thou
must die: call Joshua, and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the
congregation, that I may give him a charge. And Moses and Joshua went,
and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation.
V 015 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud:
and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle.
V 016 And the LORD said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy
fathers; and this people will rise up, and go a whoring after the gods
of the strangers of the land, whither they go to be among them, and will
forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them.
V 017 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I
will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be
devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they
will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God
is not among us?
V 018 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which
they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
V 019 Now therefore write ye this song for you, and teach it the
children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a
witness for me against the children of Israel.
V 020 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware
unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall
have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn
unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.
V 021 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are
befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness;
for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I
know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have
brought them into the land which I sware.
V 022 Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the
children of Israel.
V 023 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong
and of a good courage: for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into
the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.
V 024 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the
words of this law in a book, until they were finished,
V 025 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the
covenant of the LORD, saying,
V 026 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of
the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness
against thee.
V 027 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am
yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD;
and how much more after my death?
V 028 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers,
that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to
record against them.
V 029 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves,
and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will
befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of
the LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
V 030 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the
words of this song, until they were ended.
Chapter: 032, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the
words of my mouth.
V 002 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the
dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the
grass:
V 003 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness
unto our God.
V 004 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are
judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
V 005 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of his
children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
V 006 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is not
he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
V 007 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations:
ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell
thee.
V 008 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when
he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according
to the number of the children of Israel.
V 009 For the LORD's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his
inheritance.
V 010 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling
wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the
apple of his eye.
V 011 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young,
spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
V 012 So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with
him.
V 013 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might
eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the
rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
V 014 Butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of
the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the fat of kidneys of wheat; and
thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
V 015 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art
grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which
made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
V 016 They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations
provoked they him to anger.
V 017 They sacrificed unto devils, not to God; to gods whom they knew
not, to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not.
V 018 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten
God that formed thee.
V 019 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the
provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.
V 020 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their
end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom
is no faith.
V 021 They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they
have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to
jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger
with a foolish nation.
V 022 For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the
lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on
fire the foundations of the mountains.
V 023 I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon
them.
V 024 They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat,
and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon
them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
V 025 The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young
man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
V 026 I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the
remembrance of them to cease from among men:
V 027 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their
adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should
say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
V 028 For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any
understanding in them.
V 029 O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would
consider their latter end!
V 030 How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to
flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the LORD had shut them up?
V 031 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges.
V 032 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of
Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:
V 033 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
V 034 Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my
treasures?
V 035 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide
in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things
that shall come upon them make haste.
V 036 For the LORD shall judge his people, and repent himself for his
servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut
up, or left.
V 037 And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they
trusted,
V 038 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the wine of
their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
protection.
V 039 See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I
kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that
can deliver out of my hand.
V 040 For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.
V 041 If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on
judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them
that hate me.
V 042 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall
devour flesh; and that with the blood of the slain and of the captives,
from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy.
V 043 Rejoice, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the
blood of his servants, and will render vengeance to his adversaries, and
will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.
V 044 And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of
the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun.
V 045 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel:
V 046 And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I
testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to
observe to do, all the words of this law.
V 047 For it is not a vain thing for you; because it is your life: and
through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land, whither ye go
over Jordan to possess it.
V 048 And the LORD spake unto Moses that selfsame day, saying,
V 049 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is
in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land
of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession:
V 050 And die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gathered unto
thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered
unto his people:
V 051 Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at
the waters of MeribahKadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye
sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.
V 052 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go
thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.
Chapter: 033, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed
the children of Israel before his death.
V 002 And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto
them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands
of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
V 003 Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they
sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.
V 004 Moses commanded us a law, even the inheritance of the congregation
of Jacob.
V 005 And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people and the
tribes of Israel were gathered together.
V 006 Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.
V 007 And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, LORD, the
voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be
sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.
V 008 And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy
one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at
the waters of Meribah;
V 009 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him;
neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for
they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
V 010 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they
shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine
altar.
V 011 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;
smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that
hate him, that they rise not again.
V 012 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in
safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he
shall dwell between his shoulders.
V 013 And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, for the
precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth
beneath,
V 014 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the
precious things put forth by the moon,
V 015 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the
precious things of the lasting hills,
V 016 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and
for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come
upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was
separated from his brethren.
V 017 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are
like the horns of unicorns: with them he shall push the people together
to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and
they are the thousands of Manasseh.
V 018 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out; and,
Issachar, in thy tents.
V 019 They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall
offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance
of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
V 020 And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth
as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.
V 021 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a
portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of
the people, he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments with
Israel.
V 022 And of Dan he said, Dan is a lion's whelp: he shall leap from
Bashan.
V 023 And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, and
full with the blessing of the LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
V 024 And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him
be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.
V 025 Thy shoes shall be iron and brass; and as thy days, so shall thy
strength be.
V 026 There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the
heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
V 027 The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting
arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say,
Destroy them.
V 028 Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob
shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down
dew.
V 029 Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by
the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy
excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou
shalt tread upon their high places.
Chapter: 034, of book Deuteronomy
V 001 And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of
Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD
showed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,
V 002 And all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all
the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea,
V 003 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of
palm trees, unto Zoar.
V 004 And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto
Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy
seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not
go over thither.
V 005 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab,
according to the word of the LORD.
V 006 And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against
Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.
V 007 And Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died: his
eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated.
V 008 And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab
thirty days: so the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
V 009 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for
Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened
unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
V 010 And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses,
whom the LORD knew face to face,
V 011 In all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in
the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his
land,
V 012 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which
Moses showed in the sight of all Israel.
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